New board needed: Wall

James Wood, Canwest News ServicePublished: Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A new Labour Relations Board is needed to oversee the government's new labour legislation as part of bringing a "healthier" balance between unions and management in the province, Premier Brad Wall said Monday after his government fired the permanent members of the board last week.

NDP deputy leader Pat Atkinson said the government is simply stacking the deck against labour, even through what is intended to be an independent, quasi-judicial body.

"There is no doubt in my mind that this is a group of men and women who have decided to declare war on working men and women who happen to belong to employee organizations, whether that's through the Trade Union Act, essential services and now the labour relations board. Because the labour relations board is where organized employees go to have their cases heard ... this is clearly a government that has a bias against organized working people," she said following question period

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